Comment Re:It will still be expensive (Score 1) 141
I also live in the Netherlands and I've heard that a couple of these "free" providers get paid by the minute from the telephone companies.
So they are actually stimulated to provide you, the internet user, with a crappy connection that is slower than would be possible for them to provide. Slower access usually means, that you are longer online, thus they collect more money.
As a side note, don't get me started on selling the information of customers by these companies... Just look at the law-suit that some of these companies filed against XS4ALL (A provider that DOES charge you for access) and lost, which used part of the EULA of these companies to show the general public that their information could be sold, by these companies.
It's said before, and I'll say it again:
"There is no such thing as free internet"
The money spend must be generated from somewhere, be it from the telephone-companies, the money generated by selling information for "marketing" or by charging the general pulic for it (in the case of government funding).
Just my $0.02
TheScorp
So they are actually stimulated to provide you, the internet user, with a crappy connection that is slower than would be possible for them to provide. Slower access usually means, that you are longer online, thus they collect more money.
As a side note, don't get me started on selling the information of customers by these companies... Just look at the law-suit that some of these companies filed against XS4ALL (A provider that DOES charge you for access) and lost, which used part of the EULA of these companies to show the general public that their information could be sold, by these companies.
It's said before, and I'll say it again:
"There is no such thing as free internet"
The money spend must be generated from somewhere, be it from the telephone-companies, the money generated by selling information for "marketing" or by charging the general pulic for it (in the case of government funding).
Just my $0.02
TheScorp
